As a prominent Islamic scholar, Omid Safi has written often in defense of the breadth and nuance of Islam. But for his latest book, Safi hones in on the idea of love, and how mystic Islamic poets ...
Persian and other Islamic literature celebrated male homoerotic love as a form of divine longing – until Western moral codes ...
In the weeks since the Charlie Hebdo attacks, friends keep asking me why Muslims are so easily offended. They aren’t referring to the people who commit violence in the name of Islam, but rather ...
IMMEDIATELY after the creation of Pakistan, there was an overwhelming and euphoric sense of achievement and it ...
From stained glass windows in church sanctuaries to sculpted shrines in temples, art has played a major role in almost all practiced religions, and one club at ASU is looking to share the artistic ...
Visitors to Pearls on a String, the first exhibition at the Asian Art Museum â ¨in its golden anniversary year, will hopefully take away a sense of a cosmopolitan Islamic world in the 16th through ...
Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...